‘At times there seems even to be a Romero flavour to this pontificate’Monday is the anniversary of the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, gunned down at the altar on 24 March, 1980, while saying Mass, because he spoke up for the poor and oppressed of his homeland. We have a long tradition in Britain of championing his example. It was British Parliamentarians in 1978 who nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and our beloved Cardinal Basil Hume spoke often of the inspiration of Romero, a theme taken up more recently by John Sentamu, the Anglican Archbishop of York, who wears a Salvadorean “Romero cross” every day.So it was, therefore, no accident that Oscar Romero’s name came up recently during a discussion I took part in to assess the legacy